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Patriots' Grave in the Old Burying Ground cemetery, Arlington, Massachusetts Patriots' Day (Patriot's Day in Maine) [1] is an annual event, formalized as a legal holiday or a special observance day in six U.S. states, commemorating the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy, the inaugural battles of the American Revolutionary War.
A bill to make September 11 a national day of mourning was introduced in the U.S. House on October 25, 2001, by Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) with 22 co-sponsors. The result was the resolution to proclaim September 11, 2002, as the first Patriot Day. Original co-sponsors in the House were: [2]
Powder House Day in New Haven, Connecticut, is celebrated annually to commemorate the events of April 22, 1775, when the Governor's Foot Guard, under Captain Benedict Arnold, demanded the keys to the powder house to arm themselves and begin the march to Cambridge, Massachusetts, marking the entry of New Haven into the American Revolution.
The Loyal Nine (also spelled Loyall Nine) were nine American patriots from Boston who met in secret to plan protests against the Stamp Act 1765. Mostly middle-class businessmen, the Loyal Nine enlisted Ebenezer Mackintosh to rally large crowds of commoners to their cause and provided the protesters with food, drink, and supplies.
The travails of battling wartime diseases, the ongoing oppression inflicted on kin by enslavers, and the violent (and sometimes abusive) white officers within the ranks were a more consequential ...
In 1987, the Club Souverain de l'Estrie started the movement "For a paid holiday in memory of the Patriots," [7] [8] while other organizations, such as the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal and the Comité du 15 février 1839 (founded by Pierre Falardeau in 1997 to help finance the movie February 15, 1839 (15 février 1839)), later joined ...
The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (OVHT) is part of the U.S. National Trails System, and N.C. State Trail System. [1] It recognizes the Revolutionary War Overmountain Men, Patriots from what is now East Tennessee who crossed the Unaka Mountains and then fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
Each year on the third Monday in January, the U.S. commemorates the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday.Coinciding annually with the civil rights leader's birthday, MLK ...